I’m running Windows 7 and for some strange reason my laptop has lately started to make a constant ‘ping’ noise. The noise is exactly the same as when you change the volume up or down on windows 7 only this song is constantly repeating every 10 seconds or so even when the volume is muted. It’s starting to drive me insane, can any help with this?

In my case, I hear this sonar sound out of the speaker only when I am browsing at the Yahoo web page on Google Chrome. It happen randomly and disappear only when I close the Yahoo page. I am sure this is not a matter of hardware.

I think Alan makes a good point. First of all, confirm that the sound is coming out of the same loudspeakers that play other sounds, as some PCs have a separate transducer (or tiny loudspeaker) for “beeps” only. If it comes out of the normal loudspeakers, then check the system volume settings, but if the sound is coming from the transducer then it may indicate a hardware problem. In this case, run “health checks” on your PC (there are plenty of packages that will do this for you, have a look in download.com) and see what turns up. Good luck!

First, I think you need to discover just what is making the sound. Does it make the sound when you are on your desktop and doing nothing or is it when you are actually doing something that ypou get the sound.
To be honest, I would be more concerned about finding the source of the sound then figuring out why it isnt muted.

At first, check if you have installed all Windows updates. Second, look at computer vendor for newest sound card drivers. Third – try to play with Windows events sound schemes. Next, try to selectively switch off autosdtart programs. In search window of menu type “msconfig” without quotes. After program run select “Autostart” tab (maybe somethins similar, I am using Linux). Deselect suspicious programs and restart system.
And so on. If nothing can help, turn to computer service.

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